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From my experience it seems that EPoX are still using cheap caps with bad electrolytes in them. Every EPoX board I've seen has at least a bad cap or two, even with their latest boards.
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EPoX EP-8KHA (not 56k friendly)
Just pulled out one of my machines and have a routine look at it for any infamous bad capacitors, and lo and behold, I've found two towards the lower right hand side of the board (using the PCI slots as a reference as the top left hand corner).
Here's some photos of the capacitors, plus another two that's somewhere in the middle of the board that looked a bit dodgy, but not quite bloated:
I also had a look at the other electrolytic caps around the board, and it is a cocktail of bad capacitor brands:
Tayeh
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